Paul Ist Tot · Fehlfarben

235 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 7:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
7:31
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-78, 80-82 and 84-94, and 13 more places -- 93.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PAUL IST TOT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 79, 83, 95, 107, 111, 123 and 9 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 2 sections: 219 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-78.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paul Ist Tot?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Paul Ist Tot hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 7:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Paul Ist Tot?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 79, 83, 95, 107, 111, 123 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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